Akiko Maeda

にあんちゃん

Shōhei Imamura

Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.